Marion Martin

Known for ActingBorn 1908-06-07Died 1985-08-13Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marion Martin (born Marion Suplee, June 7, 1909 – August 13, 1985) was an American movie and stage actress. Martin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a Bethlehem Steel executive. She became an actress after her family fortune was lost in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and appeared in the Broadway productions Lombardi Ltd. and Sweet Adeline. She made her film debut in She's My Lillie, I'm Her Willie and subsequently played minor roles, often as showgirls. Several of her early roles were in musicals and she achieved some success as a singer. By the end of the decade she had played leading female roles in several "B" pictures, playing one of her most notable roles in James Whale's Sinners in Paradise (1938). Despite her success she was often cast in minor roles in more widely seen films such as His Girl Friday (1940). The majority of her roles were in comedies but she also appeared in dramas such as Boom Town (1940) in which she played a dance hall singer who is briefly romanced by Clark Gable. She played secondary roles in three Lupe Vélez "Mexican Spitfire" films in the early 1940s, and was a comic foil for the Marx Brothers in The Big Store, where the back of her skirt is cut away by Harpo. She played a ghost in Gildersleeve's Ghost, and was the subject of a legendary fistfight between Gildersleeve star Harold Peary and Warner Bros studio mogul Bud Stevens at the Mocambo nightclub in 1943. Her more substantial roles included Alice Angel, a dizzy showgirl, in the murder mystery Lady of Burlesque with Barbara Stanwyck and Angel on My Shoulder. She also appeared in The Big Street with Lucille Ball, in the western The Woman of the Town with Claire Trevor and in The Great Mike at PRC in 1944. By the late 1940s, her roles were often minor. Three Stooges fans will remember her as western cowgirl Gladys in Merry Mavericks. She played "Belle Farnol" in a 1950 episode of The Lone Ranger entitled "Pardon for Curley". Shortly afterward, she made her final film appearance in 1952. Married to a physicist, Martin retired, and although she expressed the desire to return to show business, suitable roles were not offered to her. She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to motion pictures, at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard. She died in 1985 in Santa Monica, California, and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.Read more

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Queen of Burlesque

Wedded Blitz

New Wine

Deadline for Murder

The Great Mike

Love at First Fright

Pirates of the Skies

Oklahoma Annie

Penthouse Rhythm

On Stage Everybody

Blondes and Blunders

She's My Lilly, I'm Her Willie

Gangs of the Waterfront

Girls of the Big House

Sergeant Madden

His Girl Friday

The Man in the Iron Mask

Cracked Nuts

Invitation to Happiness

Cupid Takes a Holiday

The Miss They Missed

The Storm

Boy, Oh Boy

Moon Over Manhattan

Boom Town

It Happened Tomorrow

Weekend for Three

Come to the Stable

The McGuerins from Brooklyn

Fly By Night

Journey Into Light

Key to the City

Angel on My Shoulder

Mystery of the Riverboat

Tales of Manhattan

Nobody Lives Forever

The Woman of the Town

Suspense

They Got Me Covered

The Big Store

Mr. W's Little Game

Invisible Stripes

Black Angel

Merry Mavericks

Tall, Dark and Handsome

Crime Without Passion

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

The Big Street